A guide to the fashion industry, featuring case studies, interviews and profiles. Tracing the development of the fashion industry, this book looks at how fashion can be understood from both social and cultural perspectives. It includes chapters on specialist topics; expert advice on careers in fashion retailing; and more.

Neils's examination of the Parthenon frieze's visual language offers new insight into this important monument.

A comprehensive presentation of the work of German sculptor and constructive artist, Vera Rohm.

Citing a range of examples, this surveys the ways in which artists have been influenced by museum systems and made their works into simulations of the museum, as well as how they have questioned the role of museums, observed their practices, intervened in them and helped to redefine them.

In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point on Utah's Great Salt Lake. This dramatic and highly influential work forms a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide and stretches out counterclockwise into the lake's translucent red water. Composed of black basalt rocks and ...

This guide to the craft of quilling helps readers to learn to make greetings cards, Christmas decorations, bridal accessories, decorative items for the home and three-dimensional objects. Paper strips, one simple tool and a bit of glue is all that is needed.

The opening of the Acropolis Museum in Athens in spring 2008 provides the opportunity to re-state the case for the return of the Elgin Marbles to Athens. This title makes a contribution to ensuring that the Marbles return to their place of origin.

This book is a dynamic tour through the life and the mind of artists Bob and Roberta Smith.

This volume shows, in colour step-by-step sequences, how to trace, perforate, emboss, cut and tint parchment paper to create greeting cards and bookmark designs. There are 22 projects shown in colour, together with full-size pattern and easy-to-follow instructions for each one.

The internationally renowned sculptor, Rachel Whiteread is to be the latest artist to take on the challenge of Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall in autrumn 2005, following in the footsteps of Bruce Nauman's haunting sound installation Raw Materials. Whiteread is an appropriate choice for the commission as some of her best-known works have seen her engaged in a dialogue with architecture and public .

A unique celebration of some of London's best-loved landmarks and the city's lesser-known but most fascinating statues. Engaging histories of a diverse range of commemorated individuals, together with the story of each monument are included.

Documents the entire collection and examines it as a whole. This work features documentary photographs, a section of colour plates, and detailed ethnographic descriptions of each piece, providing an account of Picasso's relationship with African and Oceanic art.

Many cemeteries contain 19th-century sculptures that present idealized images of women, elaborately posed and carefully sculpted. David Robinson's photographs capture the beauty and mystery of these sculptures. The foreword explores recurring themes such as the conflation of death and the erotic.

Sacred bronzes of Southern India.

A guide to sculpting techniques in various media, from marble and concrete to bronze, wood and resin. It devotes separate sections for each media, demonstrating the array of textural and surface effects that can be created with each material.

Explores the folk art of Scottish graveyards from the eighteenth century (when gravestones began to be widely used). This book features photographs throughout taken by the author that illustrate why we should look after the treasuries in our midst.

A beautifully produced monograph on one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century, comprising a critical essay, a superb selection of colour plates, and invaluable documentation of the artist's writings, interviews, bibliography and exhibition history.

This book accompanies an exhibition of new works by Long that span the variety of media he employs, including photographs, sculptures, and mud and text works made directly on the gallery walls.